The Nine-Aperture Dao Rhyme Lotus appeared, great powers gathered in the valley (two chapters-four thousand characters)

"You want release? It won't be that easy!"

Xiao Yan looked at Ling Quan, who wailed incessantly as the Heavenly Flames burned him inside the bottle in his hand, and gave a scornful smile. He was petty, and nothing pleased him more than repaying every slight.

Then Xiao Yan casually put away the bottle and stored the Half-Saint's corpse as well. This corpse was immensely useful: it could serve as a body for someone's resurrection or be refined into a top-grade Heavenly Demon Puppet.

"This Half-Saint learned quite a lot. He even had Heaven Tier Dou Techniques!"

Next, Xiao Yan used his secret Soul Search technique directly on Gu Yang's Half-Saint soul, obtaining numerous Earth Tier and Heaven Tier Dou Techniques from the Ancient Clan. He slowly opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing through them, and spoke with his lips curved in a smile.

"Big brother, shouldn't we go find that Nine-Aperture Dao Rhyme Lotus?"

Seeing that Xiao Yan had finished, Zi Yan came over to his side and asked.

Xiao Yan sealed Gu Yang's soul inside a bottle and tossed it into the Heaven-Concealing Ring. Just as he was about to answer, a dazzling pillar of multicolored light, dozens of zhang wide, suddenly erupted from the depths of the secret realm.

The pillar looked like a massive column a god had driven into the heavens, bathing the entire gloomy sky in brilliant colors.

Countless cultivators within the secret realm turned their eyes toward the pillar. Realizing that a treasure was about to emerge, they hurried toward it.

"It looks like a treasure has appeared. Zi Yan, let's go too!"

Xiao Yan looked at the multicolored pillar of light and considered it for a moment before turning to Zi Yan and speaking.

Zi Yan nodded, and Xiao Yan raised